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Dismissal of Challenge to Texas City’s Sex Offender Restrictions Reversed
Loaded on April 9, 2015
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2015, page 58
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Sex Offender Residence.
Location:
Texas.
Dismissal of Challenge to Texas City’s Sex Offender Restrictions Reversed
by Matt Clarke
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a challenge to the constitutionality of a city’s sex offender residency restrictions.
In 2008, Lewisville, Texas enacted an ordinance prohibiting registered sex offenders whose offenses involved ...
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